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THE WAR.

GOVERNMENT'S REPLY TO GENERAL

MAURICE'S ALLEGATIONS: MOTION FOR THE APPOINTMENT OF A SELECT ́COMMITTEE DEFEATED.

GERMANY'S NEXT MOVE: INDICATIONS OF TWO SIMULTANEOUS ATTACKS,

ENEMY OVERTURES TO AMERICA:

*A RIGMÀROLE OF CANT AND DECEIT."

Franco-Βειρία Front,

THROUGH ETER'S AGENCY-]

BRITISH FRONT.

PINNING THE ALLIES DOWN ON

ITALIAN FRONT,

LONDON, May 10th.

The Daily Telegraph's Correspondent al Rotterdam reports:---The three points where the enemy main forers are massing for the next blow are, Flanders, the Amien, silent, and the Italian front Tho pul question is-Where will the first blow be struck Indications aro

that at least two attacks will come

simultaneously, the course of the opera

the main decisive battle. Although the

LATEST GERMAN PEACE OFFENSIVE

A RIGMAROLE OF CANT AND

DECEIT.

LONDON, May 10th.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS MONDAY, MAY 18TH. 1918.

These journals describe Mr. Asquith's performance as feeble and half-hearted. As the Daily Mail. Bay, Mr. Asquith is not even an adroit Parliamentarian now. He was outgeneralled and out. fought.

THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALLIANCE

JAPAN'S UNSWERVING DETER

MINATION TO STAND BY IT

FULL MARCHING ORDER. BY RIFLEMAN PATRICK MACGILL

Travelling to or from the trenches at

THE FOOD QUEUE.

[BY EVELYN SHARP.]

WAR

PENSIONS.

241,500,000 IN ID18-19,

It was interesting to open the news-

In their report on the administration: the present time, in full marching order paper one day and mad that the action of the Ministry of Pensions the Select taken by the authorities with a view to Committee on National Expenditure is a heavy tush. The roads, past where abolishing the margarine queue hai state Whatever the cost, the nation the lightest linber stops and where man been attended with instant success. "In will not allow those who have been called has to be his own beast of burden, dregur neighbourhood, it is true, the upon to make the heaviest sacrifices for margarine queuo does not exist. But, the common cause to fall into destitus gouged by shell fire and covered with then, neither doos margarine; and it does tion, or to have reason to complain of mud. He cannot really march along not seem a tremendous achievement to niggardly treatment. In examining the them, and such refinements as keeping abolish the margarine queue by abolish.

consideration uppermost in pur minds; step are out of the question. They having margarine. For more than a week work of the Ministry this bas been the evory shop in our district that could to it all others are secondary. Never- got to drag themselves. through infinite possibly be suspected under normal cirtheless, the Committee had that in some London, May 12th-

wastes of slush and muck, which in some cumstances of selling margarine has dis

has been given to the interests of the tax- Baron Goto, in a message to Mr. Bal-parts reaches as high as the soldiers played the depressing notice No respects scarcely adequate consideration butter, no margarino. The mention of payer, and they submit a number of re- four, announcing that he was charged hips Summer with its staring heat and butter, we think, is intended for humour, with the duties of Secretary for Foreig with its mud and piercing cold in that this matters much, for if there were

dusty roads is trying enough, but winter Dodo or matches for weeks past. Not Public purse and generally improving butter having been as extinct as the commendations for safeguarding the

administration." Affairs owing to the regrettable illness

The expenditure of the Ministry for any butter few people in my neighbour-the financial year 1917-18 is estimated by and retirement of Baron Motono states:

hood could afford to buy it

the Director of Finarioe of the depart- ment at £25,000,000 For the coming

-Inced hardly assure you of Japan's unswerving determination to stand by the Anglo Japanese alliance Sharing my predecessor's implicit faith in the final victory of the common cause, I feel proud of being associated with you

in the great task before us...”

Mr.Balfour replying, welcomed Japan's assurance and said that Great Britain has always regarded, and will continue to regard, the Anglo-Japanese alliance as the corner stone of the rela tions uniting the two countries.

horrible

And

Thero was certainly no queue as

1018-19 it is estimated at £41,500,000, the assumption that there is no fur- ther change in the rates and conditions of the pensions and grants. In February 1917, the Government Actuary estimated and their families alone would bo that the expenditure in 1918-19 for men 425,000,000. The amount included in the present estimate for the same items is £35,000,000

From February 18th 1917 when the transfer of pension work to the Ministry took effect-to February 13th 3018, the number of pensions and allowances granted to officers soldiers and anilora disabled, and to the widows and other including allowances to the children of dependents of deceased officers nad men, officers and men, whether disabled or deceased, was 036,900. Cases of treat- ment and training numbered 18,500,

Still, despite all these difficulties the soldier marching through Francy must It recalls one of childhood's games carry his house with him, just like to go out with a basket in search of sail in the garden. Sometimes the margarine, matches, muttons and milk. man's pace is as slow as that of the snail. But I found, after doing this quite this is not to be wondered at seeing fruitlessly for a whole afternoon recent the conditione and the burdens which, that the game had lost its zest since leads night after night and day after imaginary basket. For although it is thenian catries. That men have these the days when I played it with an day and endure is a miracle. That they undeniable that everything beginning stick to the task with unflinching zeal with an M is as imaginary in these and always cheerful, unconquerable re days as it used to be in the nursery game solution is one of the splendours of the of long ago, the empty basket has new, war

A soldier is something for hanging unfortunately, become a reality, and things on," is a saving with the British makes all the difference to the game Expeditionary Force and soldiers array destroy a whole castle in the air.

It is astonishing how one real brick can ed in full marching order are painfully conscious of the truth of this remark as shop, known by courtesy as the Steres they near the trenches after a long march to which my sugar card chains me as from the back area to the line war

First of all there is the rife, the customer whether I wish to waver in my soldier'a best friend; and the weapon is allegiance to it or not. It was filled to overflowing with women, also carrying always with thein He must be very

Three classey of cases are mentioned by careful of it for on it his life very often baskets, and there was only one assistant. depends. If the man falls into the mud to serve us all; but nobody in our dis-the Committee, in which the course to be it does not particularly matter, but if trict ever dreams of pushing or attempt. Lord Derby, speaking at a dinner given the rifle falls in, it is a different story: ing to get served out of her turn" taken, having regard, on the one hand, it his honour by the Anglo-American rifle. The weapon must always be clean, scenes in West End shops, where fon. Jothor to just care for the public purse, There is no admissible excuse for a dirty Wo read with astonishment of alleged to the principle of generosity and on the of Peace gained him President Wilson's Press Association, emphasised the loyalty full at the beginning and as the end of batted gentlemen and fur coated ladics Presents serious difficulties: These cam- Iriendship and esteem. The Munich Pro with which Field Marshal Bir Douglas fessor, Quidde, a friend of Count Hert Haig, who was an old friend of his,

panied by the Dutch Pacifist, Jong vai Generalissimo Foch..

The Daily Mail Correspondent in Switzerland-describes the newest German peace offensive, which is directed against the United States through Switzerland. It appears that three weeks ago the German Government tried to get its offers sent to President Wilson through Pro- fessor Horon, an American, living in Genera, whose book, The Menace

THE SUREST ROAD TO

VICTORY.

PARIS, May 10th

This loyalty wes

apparently fight for whisky, at a guinea Frise (1) men who were of weak constitu-

neglect of this impossible.

march, and frequent inspections make

a bottle, and have to be formed into on wlion admitted into the Army (2) Other items of the soldier's equipment queues for the protection of the shopman men who claim that their health has been the Here, that sort of thing is simply not worsened by military service, and (3) tool, housewife, "done" even for the necessaries of men coming under Article 9 of the Royal Warrant, which allows a claim to bas

are the ammunition, 120 rounds,

hold all ground-sheet,

tions being left to decide which will be ing's, visited Professor Heron con placed his services at the disposal of baronet, entrenchingcas-tin, razor, life. If anybody at my Stores is inclined made for a pension at any future time real issue is intended to be fought out Deck, and he declared. that he had come due to his absolute confidence in Generaton rations (whook, claspknife, to be arrogant, it is generally the shop on the ground that health had been in- against the British and French; there is on behalf of Count Hertling, of the Gerasimo Foch. Similar loyalty was felt of ten and sugar and a few oxo cubes), that she wanted some matches:

way

seap comb Lowel biscuits

kuile, fork and spoon, a bottle of water,

juriously affected during service in the present war. As to thone cases the Com-

mitte recommend :--

(1) That where a man's physical dis has been slightly increased by service, he ability existing before military service should receivo a pension or gratuity

consists of six

assistant as the young woman found who a tin of corned beef, packets presumed, as I entered the shop, to say reason to believe that the Italian frontman Foreign Office, to prepare the

by all Field-Marshal Sir Douglas Haig's spare shirt, pants, socks and vest.

We all started not because she wanted will be the scene of more important for a merciful peace. He assured officers. Lord Derby was convinced that first field drowsing and an overcferent ventured to my to. We never want things 1 matches we all did but because he addition to this there are many events than in the first stage of the fesor Heron that the Reichstag peace the unified command was the surest road coverings for the head, Bollaclava / nowadays, we grovel for them. So the

| based, not, as nt present, or hi, pre-war helmet. trench helmet and forage can presumptuous young woman was natural to victory, which would not be long in Then braziers and charcoal are carried ly pat in her place, disability together with the increase Leing traversed:

up to the line by the nien who are going Matches said the assistant, ramauted by service, but on the amount of in. A fire is a great necessity in the ing her eyebrows. No matches!" comfort to the scene and no dug-out is tibly Any bacon to-day?" she asked erer complete without its braziers. And humbly. The assistant again looked as then consider the parcels from home! if she had been asked for the philosoph So when all things are taken into era stone. No bacon," she said coldly

war.

MAHON.

injury he has suffered; except where the slight increase in physical disability does in fact cause a serious decrcare în carning capacity

health bas been worsened by service, (2) That where a man claims that his

2000ade the trying marches, the perilous The young woman grew still more home evidence should be required that

London, May 10th, Major General Bir Bryan Mahon has announced his impending departure from Ireland.

party was "'"to" obtain predominance in offensive. There is the smallest number

Germany; and he wished Professor of Gerning on the Italian front, but

Heron to prepare. President Wilson to the German control of the Austrian

proft by the auspicious moment. MAJOR-GENERAL SIR BRYAN trenches. It gives in air of comparative The customer altered her tone percep armies is stronger than at any period of

Professor Quidde declared that Germany the

General Ludendorff has was ready, firstly, to grant Alsace succeeded in imposing his will on the Aus Lorraine. autonomy, provided that trians, and the moment has come to carry Alsace Lorraine was not mentioned at the decisions, bat it if doubtľu} } peuce conference; secondly, if the Brest out b whether the real intention is other than Litovsk Treaties were not raised at the that of planing down the Allies on the Pence Conference Germany might make Italian front, and to prevent General certain concessions; thirdly, that there be issimo Fach drawing upon them. As re no economie war after the war; fourthly, gards the main offensive, the Germans the German colonies must be rostered, have been concentrating their energies in developing at greater apced and fol lowing up any initial successes, chiefly due to the complaints of commanders that the failure to break through after

St. Quentin was due to incomplete co operation of artillery and infantry. Hence their plans bave been made quicker for bringing up artillery including fresh devices like the application of the tank principle to the skifting of batteries.

POSITIONS COMPLETELY RE- ESTABLISHED.

LONDON, May 9th.

10.35 p.m. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Heigre ports-At the conclusion of the fighting this morning in the La Clytte-Vormezeele sector the French and British positions were completely re-established.

The enemy, after artillery firing, launched two early local attacks in the neighbourhood of Albert and Bousin

reaching our trenebes.

UKRAINE'S SALVATION. MANIFESTO BY GENERAL SKOROPADSKY.

Loknow, May 10th, General Skoropadaty, the invetoráte enemy of the Bolsheviks, in a manifesto

THE PACIFISTS

MR. RAMSAY MACDONALD'S

(3) That the administration of Arti- clea of the Royal Warrant should be carefully and continuously watched by the Treasury. The existing practice with respect to the records obtained of the men's physical condition on discharge. and the means of securing identification. should be reviewed.

full marching order is a pretty strenuous he incations, the answers to which meant under which he has served have been such the heavy burdens, a journey ja nervous, while the rest of us bang upon this is the case or that the conditions undertaking, though hire to be faced many worse things so much to every one of us. No

march in this condensed milk-no eggs no heck of as to justify that presumption; it should nannier day in and day out through all matton only best pieces, the monoton not be assumed by so merely because the year, and after more than three years our recital went on Tea I can let good evidence cannot be adduced to the of it the soldiers of the Empire asjast you have two ounces at ds. the pound benefit should be given to the man.

contrary. In enses of real doubt, the as they were at the outbreak of war.

No Government ten left "We watched the two ounces being weighed out, hoping against hope that the supply would last out till our turn came. Our spirits rose a little when the same customer we allowed to buy a pound pot of plum jam for elevenpence a penny below the maxi. mum price fixed, as the assistant was Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, M.P. speak-careful to point out. Then came Professor Quidde could request him to The manifesto does not mention peace uncheon in London, recently, said that were with her success in tea and jam out that such a provision, not restricted

ing as the guest of the Cannibal Club at a crucial moment. What about marge

asked the young woman, flushed, as it

before the American people. It would that the Ukraine will continue operations yes, and all the wounds had been below drummed her fingers on the counter and lay such a rigmarole of cant and decsit with Russia. Therefore, it is assumed he had been attacked had been wounded. We all held our breath. The assistant any time limit, may open the door simply strengthen the determination of against Russie. the Americans to continue fighting till Prussing militarism was extinguished.

Professor Quidde explained that the present offensive on the Western Front was final effort to achieve ponce

Professor Heron indignantly asked how

Professor Quidde left weeping. Professor Heron next week was be sicged by offers from Herr Golf, also his friend Ballin, and certain members of the Court all of high social standing. They used the telephone when they found Professor Heron's door shut.

Professor Quidde and the others have ave now returned to Germany,

y, with the exception of Berr Golf, who is

on resuming office, told the Ukrainans that they owed their salvation to the Central Powers, who were invincible.

(Continued on page 7)

ON THEIR SKINS.

WOUNDS.

*On neither occI-

the belt. When he had used the substancoked out of the window. No mar garine--no butter, she said, with an tive friends with Germany as the attempt at jauntiness. The attempt fall adjective he bad said that those friends very flat, though no one said anything were the people whom they were to meet We were all long past complaining. Our MESSAGES CARRIED BY SPIES et Stockholm, and who were to support silence seemed, however, to reach the

their war aims. On the second occasion remote recesses of the assistant's con when he referred to the same thing he science, for she condescended to look at had given four or five names such as us for the first timeWhat's all this fuss A European dispatch reports the

Liebknecht, who had been fighting against about margarine she asked jocosely soizare of a woman epy carrying military Gorman militarism, and come who had I've got a nice bottle of wine bere secrets from allied countries concealed been imprisoned for it. on the skin of her back

sien did the newspapers give the quali. Doesn't anybody want a bottle of wine The secret message, which contained Ecation or define the significance. The fence, change? Only two-and-three important military information intended great problem of the war was awaken for Germany, was written in invisible democracy. The war had to be fought, But we were also past. joking; and this ink. The French Secret Service agents not on old lines, but on new bues-with sally likewise met with no response, ex- detected its presence by close scrutiny this weapons of the mind as well as the rept from the one tunn who was waiting and found the method of developing it lethal weapons, which were doing so with the others to be served What after a long series of tests. reloping effective service on the fields of Flanders sort of wine he asked with a faint This episode illustrates well the extra and France. A war of attrition had to show of interest. Ginger," was the hospital at Berne, owing to iontachic ordinary ingenuity which is employed by be carried on inside nations war was mans

and not hopeful reply. Good Lord!" said the the German Generd Staff in organizing between nations and nations. Poisoning.

spy work and gathering military secrets necessary let them see to it that it be By the time my turn came I knew that

Hundreds Professor Heron, in discussing the from allied countries.

of fought by them like men, like business nothing I wanted was in the shop, I said thousands of persons are probably em nich, and efficient men. and the men who as much to the assistant. The did not matter with the correspondent, said he played in this work and every imagin were accustomed to know the inter seem visibly affected by the information.

back to Germany is tried. On the other ketogy of the

am in favour, of Macdonald, of a peace on child. And if you'd come in this morn. who tries to reason with a spoilt for the first time that the United States band, the allied officers are equally alert - 6

david any terms which the Germans have yet

not

are achieved.

The enemy, after suffering heavy

in

of

With regard to Article 9. it is pointed

GUARDING AGAINST ABUSES,

to grave ahuse. In this connection it is of great importance that steps should be taken now to prevent fraudulent or fil- founded claims in the future. It does ments are suficient. not appear that the existing arrange-

Criticism is passed on the procedure followed in awarding pensions to men discharged on account of wounds or sick. ss. The medical boards are required to base their awards on their opinion of what had been the physical condition of the man before his admission, into the Army, as to which they have no suficient evidence, and are not in a position to make any inquiry. The Committes are of opinion that this system is wrong, and recommend that, wherever the question of pre-war health aripas

adequate local inquiries should be made into a man's medical history prior to his military service before any stops are taken to decide whether a pension should be granted on the ground of de terioration of health due to service. following

Among other recommendations are the

The procedure for selecting cases for Court Our rifle and machine-gun ft believed these people are now convinced able method of smuggling information national, situation, and knew the psy, You can have jam, she remarked, as further review at Chelsen Hospital should Once ither attached to the Boure be revised ang broke up the latter attack, the one intend to fight till the righteous objects ceiling spies and have their own democratic lines. I am not satisled with 1 could have let you have a bit of of Customs and Excise or of sunilar

informatione gathering The female skin offers an unusually offered. Certainly not. Cheers. That usage meat. Finding me proof standing, thould be appointed for the dangerous channel of communication is the nonsense that is talked Thore in against this attempt at consolation, she purpose of assisting in the examination chivalrous allied officer might hesitate to not a proposal made by Germany yet that turned to sensual person with of claims which come before Local Com- inflict humiliation on a woman and affords foucidation for a satisfactory very large rig wittees or appointed by the would be very apt to overlook much a peace. It is the duty of the diplomat, very large bag in her hand. What for An officer appointed by the Treasury place of concealment. In such cases not however, not to tell the soldier to lay you, my dear?" she asked, with almost should appear before the Appeal Tri only is the message written la invisible down his arms, but to let the War Offices human note in her voice. The small burial to assist in the lucidation of the ink, but it is also in secret code. It is look after its own job. The diplomat has person, whose head just came to the edge facts of each paso therefore hidden behind a perfect net- go look after his own job, which is to pin of the counter, referred to a grimy picco

Local inquiries should be made in all LONDON, May 10th

work of

defences 6.55

gay and mean: My policy is ons of pin items on it without a pause, in a shrill,

more than 79, 60. a wick is to be con- The papers practically join in a chorus known to science, and most, if not all, ning down." (Cheers and counter cheers) piping voice

verted into a pension, depe be practised on the human Among a number of questions put to Half of marge, half of Gor'ment tea It is suggested for ef praise of Mr. Llord George for convert skin. It should be remembered that one Mr. Ramsay Macdonald was one asking pound of sugar-lump, please; half of whether medical bords deration

these of the earliest forms of writing material him if he were willing to go to Germany fat bacon, three loaves-new, please examine the men who still remain for ing the attack based upon the Maurice parchment was made of animal skin, and repeat the speech which he had made, two-pound pot o marm'lade, three-enlistment ought not to include one mem

not Ruble

and whether he would not find himself in quarters of serag end, and two tins ober whose task would be to see that men letter into what one Ministerial organ and that the human ekin does

greatly from this.

instead of arriving hack in

condensed. She paused. There was are not taken in who are quite unsuit For every form of invisible writing activity on the Hailles-Montdidier Front coes in which the previous, attacks had there is an appropriate method of deve In renly Mr. Med said silence too deep for words. She held out able, or are not graded as it for work

secret service or in perfectly sure that he would find himself her yawning bag, without a sign of guile beyond their real capacity. officer who is entrusted with in prison like his German friends. Hon her round, innocent face. Well, pa

you've got a nerve, you have or rather the work of catching spies and detecting had secret messages must be an expert but to a neutral country, where he chemist, scientific criminologist and make a speech expressing the sentiments sistant as soon as she could find worde queue."only regular customers could be advanced student of military affairs. he did that day In reply to furtherThat's what farver said, grinned the served, I lavishly bought Bowers (for He must be able to detect every kind of questions, he said that the democracy of child and darted out of the shop to a the first time since the outbreak of war) secret writing

Germany must free itself. No democracy waiting circle of small admirers with the money I had intended to spend There are a number of colourless pub had been freed by another. There was no On my way home, denied admittance on matches, margarino, milk, an aut stances that may be used as inks which danger of Bolshevism appearing in Eng to any other provision shop by the anton. I was beginning to understar b become visible on the application of heat land. He was not a Bolshevist, but anouncement that, in order to avoid a people buy nienes and fur boots tid with

law and order want

(Coulinsed "at - foot of next column) Ulittle tassels at the top,

casualtice from one fire at Albert, affected THE GOVERNMENT'S REPLY a lodgment in our advanced positions

TO THE MAURICE LETTER

en a front of 150 yards.

FRENCH FRONT.

RECIPROCAL ARTILLERY

ACTIVITY.

PRESS COMMENT,

LONDON, May 10th,

1.30 8.0. A French communiqué states:-There was only marked reciprocal artillery describes as "The most futile of the

General

(THROUGH EEUTER'S AGENOT.]

·THE SILVER MARKET.

LONDON, May 11th. The silver market is steady.

fias

ended Ministerial Lobbyists declare that there was an almost ludicrous note of blank disappointment on the faces of Mr. Asquith's supporters when his open. ing words "a good deal of misconcep. tion made them realies that no real fight was intended.

of

Many kinds of invisible writing on the other side to exactly what they of paper in her hand, and read off the eases in which a separation allowance of

differ

ha

lopment

no intention of going to Gend your mother has," remarked the shop as

an

only.